I am not able to keep up with the pace of the last days. And I haven't been able to upload all the photos.
So, Paraguay or Asuncion didn't work out well. We, Sebastian and Bruno from France, stayed one night in Asuncion and left the next morning to Ciudad del Este. As the name says, it's east of Paraguay, actually on the border to Brazil and Argentina, on the brink to the world famous Iguazu Falls.
The busride turned out to take 6 hrs instead of the promised 4,5. We went straight to the Brazilian side and took a taxi to their side of the Falls. The difference between asking for the taxi-meter to be turned on and agreeing a price beforehand is, that the latter takes to your point of interest the fastest. In our case the right decision as we were flying and we made it 5 minutes before closing of the parque, which we actually did NOT know.
The Brazilian side of the falls was impressing. It gives you a good overview. Amazing!!
We took the last bus back to the Brazilian city Foz de Iguazu, but we wanted to go to Argentina. Luckily enough we met french people on the bus (which is actually NOT surprising as there were thousands of french around here) who knew that we had to get off and take another bus to the Argentinian side and Puerto Iguazu. "Luckily" it was, because Bruno and Sebastian just talked to them seconds before we had to get off ... WE would have stayed. Sometimes you have to be lucky: fast taxi, just in time to enter parque, last bus, right connection ... we just came to Puerto Iguazu to search for a hostel while it was raining ... luckily enough we just had the hostel when it went pouring down like hell. Hostal Residencial Los Rios. Was OK. We had a room for us three.
We then booked a bus to Buenos Aires for 5 PM the next day. I wanted to go to Uruguay but there were no straight buses, so I decided to come as well and take a ferry to Uruguay then.
The next day we wnet to the Argentinian side of the falls. Parque entrance ws cheaper than in Brazil although it is supposed to be larger.
We went straight to the map and decided to get a "train" to the Devil's Throat" which we already saw from the Brazilian side and we knew it was impressive. The train wasn't impressive. It was dead slow and full of silly old people. They were either already drinking heavily or retarded. You would have expected such behaviour from 12-year-olds but they were all over 50, ... at least.
So, the train was so slow that we could have walked. We even had to change trains.
Finally we went to the bridge over the river to the top of Devil's Throat. After walking the more than 1000 meters we had to discover that the last 40 meters were not accessible so we just saw that there was water going over an edge ... it was very disappoiting regarding all the time we spent to get there.
So we ent back. We walked!
The rest of the falls were breath-taking. Astonishing. Unbelievable. Flipping amazing!
We had enough time go go for a restaurant and take the luxury brand new bus to BA.
It was a long ride and we reached BA at 11 AM which makes it 18 hrs.
I found out that the next ferry was at 12.30 and I had to be at the dock one hour ahead of that. The next ferry would only be at 6.30PM. So I rushed to the dock but went down 2 blocks in a wrong direction. Luckily I found out myself that there were no docks to come. I wasn't there one hour ahead but 35 minutes ... they still let me go. The ferry was expensive and boring (ok, was just for 1 hour but there was no possibilidad to go outside of the boat).
I reached Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay by 1.30 PM and walked straight to one of the hostels I found: El Viajero. They even had a promotion for the 2nd night and a discount if I book with them in Montevideo, which will be my next stop.
Colonia's colonial old town is beautiful. When I come out of the hostel I can see the see the sea (or corectamente: el Rio Plata) to the left and to the right - que bonito!
I will now have to do a lot of photo-uploads!
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